Lytton Strachey (1880-1932) was an English biographer and critic. He was a member of the Bloomsbury Group, and he revolutionised the art of biography with his witty works, for example
Other members of the Bloomsbury Group of writers, critics and artists included Leonard Woolf, E M Forster (1879-1970), Vita Sackville-West, Roger Fry (1866-1934), Clive Bell (1881-1964) and John Maynard Keynes (1882-1946), and centred on Virginia Woolf (1882-1942) and Vanessa Bell at 40 Gordon Square, Bloomsbury, London. The Woolfs set up the Hogarth Press in 1917. Virginia Woolf experimented with Stream of Consciousness writing.
Strachey was born in London, and was the son of an Indian Civil Engineer. He was educated at Leamington College, and then read History at Liverpool University, before moving on to Trinity College, Cambridge.
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